Alternately, for basic tweaks, you can jump to the built-in QuickFix Studio. This pops up in a separate work area and shows a list of standard image adjustments. Within the QuickFix Studio, you can do most basic editing tasks, such as lens-distortion correction, red-eye and blemish removal, and cropping and straightening. You'll also find many common tools, such as those for cropping, sharpening, and the like, as the top items in drop-down menus on the main screen. So for the most part, no matter how you like to approach a photo-editing programincluding never cracking the manualPhotoPlus can accommodate you.

All the tools work well, so that you don't have to spend hours just trying to straighten a picture or scrubbing a pimple off a spouse's face. Of course, no one has yet perfected red-eye removal, which can sometimes make people look walleyed. And Adobe's Elements still has an edge in terms of offering simple, automated tools like an easy-to-find and use tooth-whitening brush.

The presence of Serif's simplifying measures doesn't mean that the program can't match the more expensive Photoshop in many respects. Serif lets you change layers as much as you want, for example, but keeps the layers editable. This sort of nondestructive editing is a popular aspect of Photoshop CS3. Furthermore, PhotoPlus is compatible with many of this rival's plug-ins, including those from Alien Skin Software, Twisting Pixels, and Kai's Power Tools (owned by Corel, oddly enough). To top it off, PhotoPlus can handle Photoshop files and even export images in Photoshop formats.

To all this, Serif has added lossless JPEG support, as well as macros. As with Photoshop, PhotoPlus lets you record macros and then apply them to individual files or even, via batch processing, to an entire collection of images. The feature is handy and one you won't find in other would-be Photoshop killers. In fact, Adobe's own Photoshop Elements can only play back such macros, not create or record themsomething I found disappointing.Next: Albums, and Panoramas

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